Fig. 1.1 – SKAM Austin promotional photograph (from Deadline - 2018) “SKAM Austin is a unique, inventive and fresh approach to online content and entertainment. The series takes a realistic and authentic approach to telling stories of American teenagers from their point of view. It’s not only a series but an immersive storytelling experience that rolls out in real time across various platforms. The sophomore season, like the first, will be full of digital elements and Easter eggs, building a fan frenzy that you can see firsthand in the show’s Facebook Group…” - Dino Ray-Ramos of Deadline (my emboldening) A mostly ‘Western’ international phenomenon, SKAM – the Norwegian term for ‘shame’ – is a teen drama originally set in Norway. The series distinguishes itself through its ‘authentic’ (Banet-Weiser, 2012; Cunningham & Craig, 2017) representations of high school students as they migrate to Hartvig Nis...
How can we understand the ontology of a digital thing, as it relates to our own?